Scott Brown elected senator from Massachusetts

posted at 9:51 pm on January 19, 2010 by Allahpundit

With 93 percent reporting, he’s winning by five. The AP called it around 20 minutes ago but Coakley called to concede even before that. Just as I’m writing this, MSNBC is reporting that The One phoned Brown to say congrats. Everything, and I mean everything, has changed.

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@Missy,
I dont know if you will read this message – but i hope to God that you do.

THANK YOU and people like you for keeping the faith. There were people on this thread yesterday who were pessimistic about this race – you pointed out that if people remained pessimistic Scott Brown would not have been where he was yesterday – and where he is today – The US Senator who has won the people’s seat !!

Long Live The Republic of the United States – Long Live the New England Patriots !!

A historic move to the center from HA commenters! Congrats on embracing a RINO guys! I’m pleased to see you’ve finally taken David Frum’s advice and moved away from the destructive, extremist fringes of your ideology, towards a pragmatic center. A great night indeed.

crr6 on January 19, 2010 at 10:37 PM

Brown was even reluctant to say he magic word “Republican”.

Check out again. MA Tea Party people are actually INDIES: disenchanted conservatives against Establishment.

I didn’t hear it, but did Obama really take a jab at Brown for driving a truck? I know he’s not the sharpest knife in the drawer, but was he really stupid enough to do this?

You’re forgetting this is the same man who sneered at “bitter” people who believe in God and the Second Amendment; mocking someone for driving a truck is no surprise.

See, because most people who have a truck use it to do heavy work – construction, landscaping, that sort of thing. The concept of working for anyone other than the government is completely foreign to Obama; ergo, a truck is the equivalent of a spaceship to him.

Thanks Allah, been waiting for the humpbot. Awesome day today with Mr. Brown taking Massachusetts. And the country takes a step back from the brink of Socialism. You need to make sure the humpbot gets a good rest cause come November he’s going to be in high demand, the peoples’s tsunami is coming to Washington and we won’t be denied, our conservative voices will be heard. There will be a lot of unemployed critters running around DC in November wondering what hit them if they don’t wake up and begin listening to the folks out here.

‘A GOP win in Massachusetts would be a particularly dark sign representing “not just the canary in the coal mine,” said Wade Randlett, a leading Silicon Valley fundraiser for Obama. “It’s the flock of dead ravens landing on the lawn.”‘

It’s glorious, and, I am quite drunk at this point, but a few unimportant things to say.

Thanks to everyone who made this possible. I know Brown is not perfect, but he is a sight better than what we have up here in my liberal state of Vermont. I am a recently disabled vet, and I didn’t have much to give, but I was able to send ten bucks Brown’s way, and I would like to think I played my part.

Next, let’s send these other politicians a message! I have lived in the South, and have thought of moving there given how much I love their history and culture, not to mention the similar values I share with them, but you know what? Screw that. We can do it. We can take back our land. I love this land; let’s send the [expletive deleted] [Expletive deleted] running.

They have us surrounded? Sucks to be them. Fired up now!

[I have had a few celebratory beers, so, excuse any typos. Hopefully I didn’t embarrass myself]

Amazing. I’m so very, very happy! God bless US Senator Brown & the wise people of MA. While I may wish he was even more conservative, I think we should be happy that the Kennedy throne has been snatched for the next 6 yrs. If he’s a RINO then so be it. At least he’ll vote against Obamacare. It is a historic eve despite how moderate Sen. Brown may be.

I admire Croakley for being gracious in defeat. The rest of the Dem’s should follow her example in the future.

The best thing that can happen for Obama is for the Repub’s to pick up one house in Congress & close to the other which would pull him towards the middle. It was a blessing for Clinton.

Ok, as someone who reads vicariously at work and can’t post there, I’m home now and sublimely wrapped in the warm glow that only a couple of 12yr scotches can deliver. Also, as a Humpbot virgin, although I had inklings of what to expect, the splitting pain in my sides was worth it. What a ride. Thanks to all on HA who provide me with so much distraction (MUST. STOP. READING. AT. WORK)during my day. Your insight, analysis, and yes your banter, makes it all bearable.

Hey, where are the trolls???

I tried to watch some MNLSD and it was like a train wreck stuck in a loop. They actually felt that now was the time to push the agenda ahead as this somehow showed that sub-Zero hadn’t gotten far ENOUGH and voters wanted to send a message. To survive, the demonrats would have to deliver on HC this year. Huh? Are you friggin’ kidding me! So much Kool-aid, so little time. Let them fall on their own swords.

Thanks to all (with no small help from Omaha…) who contributed. This too sends a powerful message. OFA is in the weeds while this train barrels down the tracks baby!

OK, I’m in AK time so I’m watching some of this delayed on the tube… back to your banter. Reaches for the Glenfiddich…

this will further energize the people, many of the team party folks, who have seen the contribution that they can make, even if they can’t get to the venue. We can help select the candidates and then help them get elected.

Related: I also just heard on Fox that Massachusetts went for Reagan on both elections. So the later story about MA having become “a Democrat state” is a myth, apparently, and I blame Kerry and Kennedy for that.

I was on a plane all day and found out when I got home the news. In my travels I talked to people from all over the country. They were tuned into this election. Tiny blue Massachusetts. These were random people and when they heard I was from Massachusetts brought the election up,always with hope in their eyes. It was amazing the support for Scott to win. People do not want Obamacare. They do not want him spending this country into oblivion and want the country back.

I am so grateful for this win. For the first time my one little vote meant something big. What an extraordinary day!

The Democrats had forgotten history because, after all, Boston was the site of the great Boston Tea Party, and once again the people have risen up in protest against those in power who would lord it over the common man.

Democrats sit, rapt in listening to their fevered dreams and misguided ambitions, secure that they know best by virtue of liberal-inundated education and political beliefs. They believe that we are the Great Unwashed, the masses of common citizens who, like children, they must make all the decisions for because it is ‘for our own good’

Those of us who resist, of course, they deem teabaggers, obstructionists, shortsighted, and the angry mob. They want to believe us to be the barbarians at the gates of their liberal socialist utopia – their paradise.

They also hold certain members of their own as if they are airstocracy – the Kennedy family – an idea which would have made the blood boil of our FOunding Fathers if they could see how they touted this Senatorial seat as the ‘Kennedy Seat.’

This was a fatal error in their campaign because it makes us all the more determined to finally end this notion of aristocracy.

Teddy Kennedy was one ofthe most liberal of all the Democrats, their lion, their king, their Kennedy nobility – he was the last of the fabled ‘Camelot’ era.

Had to work so I missed the party, but when I heard the news a few hours ago I knew AP would have the ‘bot ready to greet me when I got home.
This is great first step toward taking the country back to values of individual liberty and personal responsibility.

So how is Barry Obrawndo’s record looking?
0 for the olympics…
0 for Copenhagen…
0 for Massachusetts…
At least that speech in Cairo worked out for us, right?

Besides the voters themselves and Scott Brown, this victory can be attributed to one man: Mitt Romney.

Excerpt from Brown victory speech: I’m grateful to all those from across Massachusetts who came through for me even when I was a long shot. I especially thank a friend who was there with encouragement from the very beginning, and helped show us the way to victory – former Governor Mitt Romney.

Romney passed the Massachusetts health care that allowed Brown to say NO to nationalized health care.

Romney provided the staff and seed money to Brown from the very START. Brown would not have run otherwise.

Romney’s presence caused the idiot Democrat legislature to remove the ability of the Governor to appoint interim Senators in the case of a vacancy, which allowed Brown to run.

Romney’s presence caused the idiot Democrat legislature to remove the ability of the Governor to appoint interim Senators in the case of a vacancy, which allowed Brown to run.

Thank you Mitt Romney!

scotash on January 20, 2010 at 3:26 AM

Like Cavalry general Buford at Gettysburg, Sarah Palin’s ‘death panel’ FB was what held off the enemy giving the TPM and conservatives invaluable time to marshall forces to join battle with the Dems and Obamacare.
“Buford was the first to make contact with Lee’s army, and became the first hero of the battle. Knowing that Lee’s infantry would be coming on July 1, and having decided that Gettysburg was good defensive ground, Buford decided to resist the enemy as long as he could in order to give the rest of the Union army time to concentrate. His men used dragoon tactics–three-quarters of his troopers fighting in a heavy skirmish line while the remaining quarter held their horses–and held the advance of A.P. Hill’s infantrymen to a crawl until Maj. Gen. John Reynolds arrived with the advance units of his First Corps. When the infantry deployed, Buford’s men dropped off to their flanks to provide protection, while at the same time continuing to provide timely intelligence on the arrival of new Confederate units. It was an example of a consummate professional showing an eye for good ground, tactical sense, and tenacity at a moment of crisis. When the Federal infantry retreated to Cemetery Hill in the late afternoon, Buford helped deter a Confederate advance by taking a menacing position on the Union left, near the Emmitsburg Road.

The next morning, July 2, Buford’s men were the only cavalry on the field, patrolling a broad area around the Peach Orchard, performing the valuable duty of guarding the army’s left flank and reporting enemy movement. Pleasonton, however, withdrew Buford’s entire force to Westminster to refit in the army’s rear. Buford’s 2,600 troopers rode off the field in the late morning of July 2 with nobody to replace them–a fact that would have dire consequences for the Union left later that day. They would never reenter the battle.

A man that never quit driving himself, Buford contracted typhoid in the fall, and, exhausted, died in December.